I.

OVERTHROW THE US-MARCOS DICTATORSHIP TO ACHIEVE NATIONAL

FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
a. The Usurpation of Absolute Power by the US-Marcos Dictatorship
The US-Marcos clique has converted Article VII, Section 10, and Paragraph 2 of the
reactionary constitution into an overall license to suppress the sovereign rights of the Filipino
people in violation of every concept of republicanism.
In his background speech for his prior acts, all essentially calculated to usurp and concentrate
absolute governmental power in his hands and suppress every kind of democratic and
revolutionary opposition to his regime, he boasted of wanting to save the republic and to reform
society and of doing so in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the reactionary armed forces
alone.
The promulgation of Proclamation No. 1081 violates Article VI, Section 26 of the reactionary
constitution which clearly states in times of war or national emergency, Congress may by law
authorize the President, for a limited period and subject to such restrictions as it may prescribe,
to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out a declared national policy.
b. The Suppression of the Basic Democratic Rights of the People
General Order No.2 reiterates the order for mass arrests and mass detention immediately
embodied in Proclamation No. 1081. It orders the fascist troops to arrest and detain for as long as
it pleases the dictatorship. General Order No, 4 orders the maintenance of a daily curfew
throughout the Philippines from 12:00 midnight to 4:00 a.m. General Order No. 5 orders the
suppression of the basic democratic rights of free assembly and free expression.
Letter of Instruction No. 1 orders the Press Secretary of the Department of Public
Information (DPI) to take over all newspapers, magazines, radio and television facilities and all
other media of communications. General Order No. 6 and General Order No.7 are intended to
consolidate the control by the US-Marcos dictatorship of firearms and ammunitions in the hands

of the reactionary armed forces and police forces and also those in hands of security agencies and
warlords.
Letter of Instruction No.2 orders the Secretary of National Defense to take over the
management, control and operation of the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO), the
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the national Waterworks and Sewerage
Authority (NAWASA), the Philippine National Railways (PNR), the Philippine Air Lines (PAL),
Air manila, Filipino Orient Airways, and other public utilities. Presidential Decree No.2
proclaiming the whole country as a land reform area.
c. The Fabrication of the State of National Emergency
The dry run for the big trick that is the current state of national emergency was the Plaza
Miranda Massacre on August 21, 1971 and the subsequent suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus until January of that said year. Despite all the evidences and clues gathered, the USMarcos clique did nit only continue to insist on its false anti-communist charges but also
maneuverer to suppress evidence pointing to its own criminal responsibility.
The wide-ranging whereases of Proclamation No. 1081 contradict each other and serve
mainly to show how much of fumbling liar the dictator Marcos is. The term martial law appears
in the context of a constitutional provision, which refers to certain other factors and elements and
which even refers to degrees and alternatives.
d. New Society means Nothing But the worsening of the Old Society
The US-Marcos dictatorship is not satisfied with pretending to save the republic in
attacking the national and democratic rights of the sovereign people. It wants to remain in power
as long as it can through sheer armed force by pretending to form a new society. The new
society means the perpetuation of the fascist dictatorship.
The old basic evils that are US imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism shall
continue to afflict semi-colonial and semi-feudal Philippines and shall aggravate the political and
economic crisis of the ruling system and likewise the suffering of the broad masses of the people
through the unmitigated puppetry, bankruptcy, brutality, corruption and mendacity of the Marcos
fascist puppet dictatorship.

e. Tasks of the Communist Party of the Philippines in the New Situation

The setting up of the US-Marcos dictatorship through the declaration of an unlimited form
of martial law and under the fascist principle that all power can be given to the military has
brought about a new situation.
In the new situation, three things stand out. First, the Communist Party of the Philippines is
the most prepared to lead the revolutionary struggle that calls for the armed overthrow of the
fascist government. Second, the Party has the strongest and the most experienced revolutionary
army, the New Peoples Army. Third, the ranks of the revolutionary movement have greatly
expanded and fighting cadres as well as allies are all over the archipelago determined to conduct
peoples war.
In addition, the CPP pledge to themselves, to all their allies and to all of their countrymen in the
context of their program for a peoples democratic revolution:
1. To join up with all forces that are opposed to the fascist dictatorship of the US-Marcos
clique and conduct a firm revolutionary struggle to overthrow it;
2. To strengthen the New Peoples Army, boldly organize guerrilla units all over the
archipelago and draw all possible cooperation from everyone opposed to the US-Marcos
Dictatorship;
3. To help re-establish the democratic rights of all anti-fascist forces including individuals,
political parties, trade unions, mass organizations, mass media, religious organizations
and all other people, and to take all steps towards a democratic coalition government;
4. To fight for the nullification of all acts of the fascist dictatorship that favour US
imperialism and the Marcos fascist clique, and to make possible the abrogation of all
unequal treaties and agreements with the United States, especially those pertaining to
direct investments, military bases, military assistance, military aggression and cultural
aggression;
5. To pave the way for the arrest, trial before a peoples court and punishment of the dictator
Marcos and his diehard accomplices for the setting up of a fascist dictatorship, bloody
crimes against the people and enrichment in office, and make possible the confiscation of
all ill-gotten wealth of Marcos fascist clique;
6. To welcome to the revolutionary ranks those officers and men of the reactionary armed
forces who turn at any time against the US-Marcos dictatorship.

II.
GUIDE FOR ESTABLISHING THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
October 1972
PART I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Article 1. The Peoples Democratic Government is led by the proletariat and is based on
the toiling masses of the proletariat and the peasantry. It has at the same time a united front
character, with all democratic classes, including the petty bourgeoisie, the national bourgeoisie
and others, supporting it and participating in it.
Article 2. The Peoples Democratic Government shall adopt all policies and carry out all
measures which are necessary to bring victory to the peoples democratic revolution against US
imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. These policies and measures shall cover the
political, economic, military, cultural and all other spheres of popular activity and shall pave the
way for the establishment of a peoples democratic republic embracing the entire country.
Article 3. The system of the Peoples Democratic Government shall be based on the
principle of democratic centralism. Individuals are subordinate to the government and general
welfare; the minority is subordinate to the majority; the lower level is subordinate to the higher
level of government. Functionaries of the government shall either be elected by popular vote or
be appointed according to law.
PART II
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Chapter 1
The Central Peoples Government
Article 1. The National Peoples Congress shall be the highest governmental organ of the
Peoples Democratic Government. It shall formulate and issue the necessary proclamation and
laws to govern and shall delegate its authority to the Supreme Peoples Council which it shall
elect.

Article 2. The National Peoples Congress shall be composed of delegates elected by the
conference of the provincial peoples governments and other leading representatives of
democratic classes, parties and groups that may be recommended by the National Democratic
Front and approved by the delegates of the provincial peoples government.
Article 3. The National Peoples Congress shall be called as soon as possible after the
liberation of a considerable part of the country or after the nationwide victory of the revolution.
Article 4. The National Peoples Congress or the Supreme Peoples Council shall create
the necessary central organs and ministries of the Peoples Democratic Government.
Article 5. The National Democratic Front shall make recommendations regarding the
reorganization and retention of personnel under the Peoples Democratic Government.
Chapter II
The Local Organs of Government
Article 1. The basic unit of the Peoples Democratic Government shall be the barrio
peoples government. The highest authority at this level shall belong to the general meeting of
the barrio people called either to elect the barrio revolutionary committee or the organizing
committee or to discuss policies and projects undertaken by either committee.
Article 2. Between the general meetings of the barrio people, the highest governmental
authority in a barrio in a stable base area shall be the barrio revolutionary committee or in a
guerrilla zone, the barrio organizing committee. Either committee shall elect its officials from its
own ranks. A barrio organizing committee shall cease to exist whenever a barrio revolutionary
committee shall have been elected.
Article 3. The barrio revolutionary committee shall take general charge of all
organizational, educational, economic, defense, cultural, and health work in a barrio; implement
land reform program; organize the peoples militia; participate in the work of the peoples court;
collect taxes and voluntary contributions; and give all the possible support to the revolutionary
cause.
Article 4. Five subcommittees on organization, education, economy, defense and health
shall definitely be established under the barrio revolutionary committee and as much as possible
under the barrio organizing committee.

Article 5. Above the barrio peoples government shall be the municipal, district and
provincial levels of local government. Peoples conferences shall be held at these higher levels of
local government to determine policies and plans, enact rules and regulations of local
application, examine reports of the various governmental organs and elect peoples councils after
deciding on the appropriate number of council members.
Article 6. Delegates to the municipal peoples conference shall include officials of the
barrio revolutionary committee and the barrio organizing committees. Delegates to the district
peoples conference shall include the chairman and the vice-chairman of the peoples municipal
councils. Delegates to the provincial peoples conference shall include the entire or main part of
the peoples district councils.
Article 7. The peoples council shall be responsible for governmental leadership and shall
be the executive organ in its defined territory. Every peoples council shall elect among its
members a chairman and five vice chairmen responsible for mass organizations, education,
economy, defense and health.
Article 8. The term of office of the barrio revolutionary committees or barrio organizing
committees and peoples council at every level shall normally be four years, unless a higher
peoples council or conference decides otherwise or the people male a petition that results in the
dissolution and replacement of a council or committee. A council may make appointments
whenever vacancies arise its ranks.
Article 9. National minorities shall be entitled to autonomy in provinces, districts,
municipalities or barrios where they are in the majority. In area where they are in the minority,
the national minorities shall be entitled to proportionate representation in conferences and
councils.
Article 10. All local organs of government, from the barrio to the provincial level, shall
be established under the guidance of a higher political authority that has prior existence and with
due regard to the need for maintaining the united front.
Chapter III
The Peoples Court

Article 1. The Central Peoples Democratic Government shall create the Supreme
Peoples Court as the highest judicial authority. The Peoples Democratic Government may also
create special courts as may be required by special circumstances.
Article 2. The provincial, district, municipal and barrio peoples government shall create
peoples court at their respective level. In minor and simple cases, there shall be a panel of at
least three judges. In major and complex cases especially those involving the death penalty, there
shall be a panel of at least nine judges.
Article 3. The peoples court shall require specification of charges and sufficient
investigation of the case prior to trial and shall always inquire into the side of the complainant as
well as the accused.
Article 4. Trials shall ordinarily be held in public, with anyone from the ranks of the
people free to stand up and give his opinion on the case.
Article 5. Decision on every case shall be arrived at through the process of voting among
the judges. Each judge shall explain his vote to his colleagues. Ordinarily, a case may be decided
by a simple majority of votes. However, a clear two-thirds majority shall be necessary in
decisions meting out the death penalty.
Article 6. The decision of a lower peoples court shall be appealable to a higher peoples
court. However, a peoples court may accept a motion for reconsideration of its own decision.
PART III
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS
Article 1. All citizens are equal before the law and are therefore entitled to equal rights.
Article 2. Citizens who have reached the age of eighteen have the right to vote and stand
for election irrespective of sex, race, nationality, occupation, social origin, property status,
education, religious belief or length of residence. Only insane persons and persons declared by
law as enemies of the people shall be executed from his right.
Article 3. Citizens have the right to exercise the freedom of speech, freedom of
association and assembly in order to advance the revolutionary cause of the toiling masses.
Article 4. Citizens have the right to enjoy freedom of conscience and religious worship.

Article 5. Freedom of the persons of citizens is inviolable. No citizen may be arrested

without sufficient legal basis.
Article 6. The homes of citizens are inviolable and privacy of correspondence is protected
by law. Citizens are entitled to the freedom of domicile and the freedom to change residence.
Article 7. Citizens have the right to work, to enjoy better working and living conditions,
to have personal property and to keep, use or invest personal savings according to law.
Article 8. The right to free public educations is guaranteed. Schools and other cultural
institutions shall be maintained and expanded to undertake the physical and mental development
of the people, especially the youth.
Article 9. The freedom of citizens to engage in scientific research, technological
invention, literary and artistic creation and other cultural pursuits is safeguarded and promoted.
Article 10. Women have equal rights with men in all spheres of political, economic,
cultural, social and domestic life. Marriage, the family and the mother and child are protected by
law.
Article 11. Citizens have the right to bring complaint against any person in authority for
transgression of law or neglect of duty.
Article 12. Citizens must abide by this Guide and all laws emanating from it. They must
uphold discipline at work, keep public order and respect the rights of others.
Article 13. Public property is sacred and inviolable. It is the duty of every citizen to
respect the property of the Peoples Democratic Government.
Article 14. It is the duty of citizens to pay taxes on the basis of their ability to pay and in
accordance with the law.
Article 15. It is the sacred duty of every citizen to render military service according to
law and make very possible contribution to defense of the people against foreign aggressors and
local oppressors.
PART IV
FLAG, EMBLEM AND CAPITAL
Article 1. The national flag of the Peoples Democratic Government is a red flag with
three great stars in gold to signify Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Article 2. The national emblem is similar to the national flag.

Article 3. The capital of the Peoples Democratic Government shall be decided according
to circumstances.
III.
THE PARTY ENTERS ITS FIFTH YEAR SINCE REESTABLISHMENT
a. The Party Develops the Marxist-Leninist Standpoint, Viewpoint and method
This fascist dictatorship is a mere passing phase in the evil career of US imperialism,
feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. On tis other hand, the Party shall live on as the
revolutionary leader in the national democratic and socialist stages of the Philippine revolution.
The Party remains firm in striving to fulfil its central task of overthrowing the reactionary
state and can more easily before its reestablishment avoid the pitfalls of subjectivism, either in
the form of dogmatism or empiricism.
b. The Party Maintains Its Political Leadership in the Revolutionary Struggle
The New Peoples Army is the Partys principal instrument for bringing together the
proletariat and the peasantry, for carrying out the agrarian revolution, for building mass
organizations in the countryside and for establishing local peoples government in preparation for
nationwide seizure of political power.
c. Party Members are Drawn from the Ranks of the Revolutionary Masses
The Party continue to draw its members and candidate-members from ranks of Red fighters
and activists in the mass organizations and localities. The Party has a broad mass character. It
cadres and members are tested revolutionaries with the capability of leading large numbers of
masses.
Every unit of the Party and also every unit under Party leadership should strive for selfreliance. Also, the style of hard struggle and simple living should characterize all Party cadres
and members while they exert all efforts to improve the peoples livelihood by carrying out the
agrarian revolution, the workers strike movement and other like struggles.

d. The Philippine Revolution Struggle Enjoys the Support of the Worlds Struggle
The revolutionary struggle led by the Communist Party of the Philippines is immensely
supported by the great achievements of the Chinese people in socialist revolution and socialist
construction, the victorious advance of the Indochinese people against US imperialism, the
revolutionary struggles of all other Southeast Asian people and the revolutionary unity of the
Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other peoples of Asia against US imperialism and Japanese
militarism.
IV.
SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR PEOPLES WAR
1. National Democratic Revolution of a New Type
Our country is semi-colonial and semi-feudal. It is under the indirect rue of US imperialism
whose most reliable agents and puppets are the big comprador-landlords and big bureaucrats.
The cities are ruled by the comprador big bourgeoisie and the countryside is ruled by the
landlord class.
Our national democratic revolution is a continuation of the Philippine Revolution that started
in 1896. But this revolution has assumed new characteristics. It is of a new type. It is no longer
part of the old bourgeois-capitalist revolution. It is part of the proletarian-socialist revolution
which emerged since the first global imperialist war and the victory of the great socialist October
Revolution.
2. Protracted War in the Countryside
The main social problem, the single problem affecting the greatest number of people, lies in
the countryside. It is the land problem. Agrarian revolution is the solution. The peasant masses
are aroused and mobilized to overthrow landlord authority and carry out land reform step by
step. Only by carrying out agrarian revolution can the revolutionary leadership activate the
peasant masses as the main force of the revolution and realize the basic alliance of the proletariat
and the peasantry.
3. Fighting in a Small Mountainous Archipelago

The importance of an island is not determined solely by its size. Population, forest area and
mountainous terrain are more important considerations for our peoples war. There are three
outstanding characteristics of the Philippines in being an archipelago. First, our countryside is
shredded into so many islands. Second, our two biggest islands, Luzon and Mindanao is
separated by such a cluster of islands as the Visayas. Third, our small country is separated by
seas from other countries.
The fact that our country is archipelagic will turn out to be a great advantage for us and great
disadvantage for the enemy. The enemy shall be forced to divide its attention and forces not only
to the countryside but also to many islands.
4. From Small and Weak to Big and Strong
It will take a protracted period of time to change the balance of forces in our favour. Thus,
protractedness is a basic characteristic of our peoples war. We may state that in the long process
of growing from small and weak to big and strong, our peoples army will have to undergo
certain stages and substages. It is now undergoing the first stage, the strategic defensive.
Consequently, it shall undergo the second stage, the strategic stalemate, when our strength shall
be more or less on an equal footing with the enemys and our tug-of-war with the enemy over
strategic towns, cities and larger areas shall become conspicuous. Finally, it shall undergo the
third stage, the strategic offensive, when the enemy shall have been profoundly weakened and
completely isolated and shall have been forced to go on the strategic defensive, a complete
reversal of its position at the stage of our strategic defensive.
5. A Fascist Puppet Dictatorship amidst Crisis
The fascist puppet dictatorship is a counterrevolutionary measure of weakness and
desperation rather than of strength. The fascist dictatorship is the open terrorist rule of a
reactionary clique with big comprador and big landlord interests. The longer it continues in
power the more fertile the ground becomes for our peoples war.
All the fascist acts of the US-Marcos clique carried out with brute armed force are calculated
to stabilize the rule of US imperialism and the local reactionary classes over the broad masses of
the people. But the essential effect of such acts has been to widen and deepen the armed

resistance. Linking the fascist puppet dictatorship with the peoples economic suffering is the
single method which has made the propaganda for armed revolution most effective.
6. Under One Imperialist Power
The single most valid explanation why there is yet no open war among the reactionaries
despite all the bitterness of the internal contradiction among them, a contradiction so far marked
by the unilateral acts of terrorism and violence by the Marcos fascist gang, is that the entire
country is under the domination of one imperialist power.
Many explanations can be made but so long as they are pertinent to the question they all lead
to the single explanation that US imperialism is the single most important determinant force in
the reactionary politics in the country.
In the face of US imperialism, we are in need of international support. The support of those
abroad who are in sympathy with our just revolutionary cause is indispensable to our victory.
7. Decline of US Imperialism and Advance of the World Revolution
The Philippine Revolution, particularly our peoples war, is greatly advantaged today by the
decline of US imperialism in Asia and throughout the world and corollarily by the advance of the
world revolution. The main trend of revolution keeps on advancing because of the everworsening crisis of US imperialism and the entire capitalist system.
In the world anti-imperialist struggle against the two superpowers, it is entirely correct for
China and other socialist countries to raise their levels of socialist revolution and socialist
countries and rely on their own proletariat and people upon such a basis carry out an external
policy that would foster unity with Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The Philippine Revolution, particularly the peoples war that we are presently waging, finds
abundant support not only among the broad masses of the people in the Philippines. It also finds
abundant support in the peoples and proletariat of socialist countries, colonies and semicolonies
and capitalist countries.

V.
OUR URGENT TASKS
1. Carry forward the anti-fascist, anti-feudal and anti-imperialist movement!
This is the current combative expression of the general line of carrying out the peoples
democratic revolution. We must give the Marcos fascist dictatorship the hardest and most deadly
blows. And we must link the anti-fascist struggle necessarily to the anti-imperialist and antifeudal struggle. The new society is but the worsening of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal
society, with the Marcos fascist gang acting as the chief puppet of the US imperialism and the
general agent of the comprador big bourgeoisie and the big landlord class.
2. Further strengthen the Party and rectify our errors!
We are still in the formative stage of the Party if we consider the protractedness of the
struggle and look forward to the stage of socialist revolution. We have made some
accomplishment and gained experience which should serve as the basis for further progress in
ideological, political and organizational work. To guarantee our progress, we must be able to
analyse not only the positive experiences but also our negative experiences so as to most
effectively outcome the difficulties and rectify the errors and weaknesses.
3. Build the revolutionary mass movement in the countryside!
We must put the focus of our mass work on the peasant masses and for the land question and
comprehensively build mass organizations for workers, peasants, youth, women, children and
cultural activists in the countryside. The steps for doing so, starting with the barrio liaison group,
have been made clear. We must develop great number of mass activists even as we resort to
underground methods. From the ranks of these activists, we can build the Party and train the
able-bodied for the militia and full-time guerrilla units of the New Peoples Army.
4. Further strengthen the peoples army and carry forward the revolutionary armed
struggle!
The armed struggle is the main form of revolutionary struggle. On the basis of the
revolutionary mass movement, we can organize a larger and more effective armed force. We can

increase our armed strength by seizing arms from the enemy through ambushes, raids, and ruses
wherein we have complete initiative. At the same time, we must be good at frustrating, if not
smashing, enemy campaigns of encirclement and suppression. We must be adept at employing
tactics of dispersion, shifting and concentration, depending on the circumstances. Between
battles, units of the peoples army must militantly engage mass work.
5. Build revolutionary mass movement in the cities!
We must put the focus of our mass work on the worker masses and comprehensively build
mass organizations for workers and all other progressive sections, especially the intelligentsia, in
the cities. We must conscientiously build the revolutionary underground in the factories,
communities, school and offices and make it deep and wide basis of open mass struggle. At the
core of this underground should be the Party. We must continuously develop a great number of
mass activists and draw from their ranks our Party members.
6. Realize a broad anti-fascist, anti-feudal and ant-imperialist united front!
By doing well our revolutionary work among the basic masses, we have a base from which to
win over allies in the countryside and in the cities. Our policy is to develop the progressive
forces, win over the middle forces and split the ranks of the reactionaries to isolate and destroy
the enemy. The united front serves to facilitate our reaching the masses in their millions and to
present a wide and solid phalanx against enemy attacks. In the most difficult situations, we must
able to utilize even some conservative and non-revolutionary organizations to serve the
revolutionary cause.
7. Relate the Philippine revolution to the world revolution!
The Philippine revolution is part of the world revolution. Just as the revolutionary struggles of
other peoples support our peoples struggle, we must work and fight hard in our revolutionary
struggle to support them so that ultimately the whole of mankind can emancipate itself from
imperialism and make possible the dawning of communism. It is our view that the development
of the third world peoples and countries as the main force of the international united front against
the two superpowers serves the cause of the proletarian internationalism.

VI.
TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT MAO ZEDONG
a

The New Democratic Revolution

Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out that there are that there are three basic weapons of the
Chinese Revolution in seizing political power were; a communist party using the MarxistLeninist revolutionary theory and the style of being closely linked with the masses; a peoples
army under the leadership of such a party; and a united front of all revolutionary classes under
the leadership of such a party.
b

The Socialist Revolution

The new democratic revolution had been basically completed upon the seizure of political
power. And the socialist revolution began. The dictatorship of the proletariat, taking the form of
the peoples democratic state, was established.
He pointed out that the basic contradictions in socialist society were still those between the
relations of production and the productive forces and between the superstructure and the
economic base. He stated that though socialist relations of production had been established and
were in harmony with the growth of productive forces they will still far from perfect, and this
imperfection stood in contradiction to the growth of the productive forces.
c

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

A political revolution waged by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and all exploiting
classes the objective was to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat and prevent the
restoration of capitalism by revolutionizing the superstructure of the socialist society in line with
what emerged fully as Comrade Mao Zedongs theory of continuing revolution under the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
d

Mao Zedong and the Philippine Revolution

Learning from Comrade Mao Zedong is indispensable to us as a Marxist-Leninist party,

because we are waging a new democratic revolution in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

His teachings guide us in our new democratic revolution and will further guide us in the ensuing
socialist revolution. Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Zedong Thought is the microscope and telescope
of the Philippine Revolution.
VII.
TWO MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES
a

The First Major Responsibility

The Party must develop the revolutionary mass movement firstly among the workers and other
urban poor and secondly among the petty bourgeoisie, especially the students and other sections
of the intelligentsia. Mass organizations must be built in factories, school and communities and
mass campaigns must be launched here.
The leading force at the core of these mass organizations and campaigns must be the Party. With
more members of an activist quality, the Party can lead more trade unions, student organizations
and other mass organizations, and launch more campaigns to advance the peoples democratic
revolution.
We must carry forward the political and economic struggle of the worker masses. Legal struggles
intended to improve their working and living conditions and raise level of their political struggle
must be carried out vigorously. Trade unions, cooperative societies, educational associations and
various forms of legal organizations can be formed among them.
We must support he struggle of the urban poor communities, composed mainly of proletarians
and semi-proletarians, especially those threatened or already victimized by ejections and
demolition of their homes.
We must also encourage the students to organize themselves and speak out on issues pertaining
to their own plight and that of the people.
b

The Second Major Responsibility

Since early 1975, the Party organization has been working hard at taking roots at the basic level.
There is still a great deal of work to do to strengthen the revolutionary movement in every

district. But by this time, the Party leadership of the region should include in its orientation
extending support to the other regions and should start doing so.
The Manila-Rizal Party organization can launch campaigns to gather material support for the
other regions, especially for the armed struggle. This support include funds, revolutionary
reading materials, some military materials, medicine and medical facilities, communications
equipment and so many others.
The Manila-Rizal Party organization plays an important role in the national communications of
the Party. Having played an important role in the national expansion of the Party, it has created
so many links with other regions.
VIII.
THE TEN-POINT PROGAM OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT
1

Unite all anti-imperialist and democratic forces to overthrow the US-Marcos Dictatorship
and work for the establishment of a coalition government based on a truly democratic

system of representation.
Expose and oppose US imperialism as the mastermind behind the setting up of the fascist
dictatorship, struggle for the nullification of all unequal treaties and arrangements with

this imperialist power, and call for the nationalization of all its properties in the country.
Fight for the reestablishment of all democratic rights of the people, such as freedom of
speech, the press, assembly, association, movement, religious belief, and the right to due

process.
Gather all possible political and material support for the armed revolution and the

underground against the US-Marcos dictatorship.

5. Support a genuine land reform program that can liberate the peasant masses from
feudal and semi-feudal exploitation and raise agricultural production through

cooperation.
Improve the peoples livelihood, guarantee the right to work and protect national capital

against foreign monopoly capital.

Promote a national, scientific and mass culture and combat imperialist, feudal and fascist

culture.
Support the national minorities, especially those in Mindanao and the Mountain
Provinces, in their struggle for self-determination and democracy.

Punish, after public trial, the ringleaders of the Marcos fascist gang their crimes against

the people and confiscate all their ill-gotten wealth.

10 Unite with all peoples fighting imperialism and all reaction, and seek their support for the
Philippine revolutionary struggle.